Run the entire tender process
Tendering is not one project — it is eight. Discover, qualify, analyze, write, quality-check, submit, follow up, appeal if necessary. Here is how to keep an entire bid team on the same page through the whole cycle — without Excel sheets, without email threads, without losing details in the corners.
The challenge
Tender work is spread across eight tools
Doffin for search, email for alerts, SharePoint for documents, Word for drafts, Excel for checklists, Outlook for deadlines, Slack for discussions, accounting software for invoicing. Every handover is a leak — and when a colleague is away, you lose context you never get back.
tools per tender
A typical bid team uses at least eight different applications per tender. Each is good on its own; together it becomes a fragile construction.
at every handover
When the sales lead hands a qualified opportunity to the subject matter expert, and the SME to the bid writer, details get lost — and have to be rediscovered.
stops tenders
In today's setup, tenders are person-dependent. When one person is away, the team loses the documents, the status, and the local understanding of where things stand.
Here is how to do it
One tool for the entire lifecycle — and the entire team
Tenderen is not one tool that connects to everything else — it is one platform that covers the entire lifecycle, with integrations to the stack you already use.
Shared pipeline for the entire team
Sales lead, bid manager, subject matter experts and lawyers see the same pipeline. Every tender has an owner, status, next deadline and award model visible to everyone.
Shared timeline with calendar sync
Every deadline across every active tender in one Gantt view. Synced to Outlook and Google. Resource conflicts surface before they become a problem.
Shared workflow — discover to appeal
Every phase has a structured workflow: discover, qualify, analyze, write, quality-check, submit, follow up, appeal. Nothing falls between the chairs — because there are no gaps.
Shared knowledge base
Previous bids, winning strategy, KOFA practice and customer data sit in one searchable base. The next tender never starts from scratch again.
How it works
Three steps to a managed tender machine
Set up the pipeline
Import active tenders, define team and roles, connect Doffin, Slack and calendar. Tenderen creates a structured pipeline with a standard workflow from day one.
Run the entire cycle in the platform
Every tender follows the same structured cycle — from discover through qualification and writing to submission and follow-up. No details fall between systems.
Optimize with data
Tenderen shows win rate per category, time spent per phase, and where the pipeline bottlenecks sit. Improvements are based on data, not gut feeling.
Bid teams that deliver in sync
Growing bid teams use Tenderen to scale the number of tenders assessed and submitted — without scaling headcount in the same pace or losing delivery quality.
Search, analysis, writing and follow-up
Pipeline, roles and deadlines
Discover to appeal
On every decision
Stop pasting data across eight tools.
Set up the tender pipeline in Tenderen in under an hour — and give the team a platform that actually matches how tender work fits together.